The hobbit ; or There and back again / by J.R.R. Tolkien ; illustrated by Alan Lee.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : HarperCollins Publishers, 2020Copyright date: ©1965Edition: Illustrated hardback editionDescription: viii, 307 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 23 cmContent type: text | cartographic image | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780008376116; 0008376115; 9780008376055; 0008376050Other title: There and back againSubject(s): Baggins, Bilbo -- Fiction | Gollum (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Dwarfs (Folklore) -- Fiction | Quests (Expeditions) -- Fiction | Treasure troves -- Fiction | Hobbits (Fictitious characters) -- Fiction | Middle Earth (Imaginary place) -- FictionGenre/Form: Fantasy fiction.DDC classification: 823.912 Summary: Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day, to whisk him away on a journey 'there and back again'. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon...Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Maps on endpapers.
Illustration copyright, 1997.
Includes 27 pages of plates.
First published in Great Britain by George Allen & Unwin 1937.
Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day, to whisk him away on a journey 'there and back again'. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon...
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